And of course the “hide extensions” option is by default.

Windows: “I helped!”

I appreciate your dedication to skelposting the heck out of this Halloween season.

Hmm, it appears if we squeeze tighter, more blood will come out. Surely there is no natural limit to this principle.

Someone needs to leak Coyote vs. Acme already. If it’s been written off, what’s the harm?

This is tragic. I can’t think of how many computers I built using incomparable Anandtech articles. The depth of the testing, and careful, scientific planning really has no match in tech journalism.

The high water mark just lowered.

I’ll have you know…I closed the thread just as I was reading this, and came back to upvote it.

In the end, people just like hearing familiar voices. If you trick people into getting familiar with your voice, it doesn’t matter what’s being said as much as it seems.

Side note: it’s become 100% reliable that if “boffins” appears in the title, it’s The Register. Damn, they love that word.

I think good hotel breakfast peaks at the middle of the price curve.

I stayed at a La Quinta by Portland airport and they had pancakes, Belgian waffle machines with butter and syrup, biscuits, bacon, eggs, cereal, fruit, juice… For a $115 a night room.

I’ve stayed at the Four Seasons in Chicago and they had bread and juice.

“I’d like a cup of mead.”

“Are you 21?”

“I’m 21… Bibles.”

Super helpful, thanks!

What does “temperature” on the Y-axis refer to?

At this point Musk has platformed all of the undesirables of the internet. He’s a big, blinking, neon sign that says “there are no adults in the room, do whatever you want.”

That could be a service to the rest of us. It would be nice if, now that they’re all concentrated there, the internet could quietly agree to shadowban the entire site. Just disappear it from search results, conversation, “zeitgeist.” Let all of the toxic users keep each other busy while the rest of us enjoy a cleaner internet.

It’s actually a great idea - an up up-to-date light field camera combined with eye tracking to adjust focus. It could work right now in some VR, and presumably the same presentation without VR via a front-facing two-camera (maybe one camera with good calibration) smartphone array.

Some smaller tech startups are running out of cash and facing fundraising struggles with the era of easy money now over, which has prompted workforce reductions. But experts say for most large and publicly-traded tech firms, the layoff trend this month is aimed at satisfying investors.

Shulman adds: “They’re getting away with it because everybody is doing it. And they’re getting away with it because now it’s the new normal,” he said. “Workers are more comfortable with it, stock investors are appreciating it, and so I think we’ll see it continue for some time.”

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And as Wall Street rallies on news of laid-off tech employees, more and more tech companies axe workers.

“You’re seeing that these tech companies are almost being rewarded by Wall Street for their cost discipline, and that might be encouraging those companies, and other companies in tech, to cut costs and layoff staff,” said Roger Lee, who runs the industry tracker layoffs.fyi.

So it’s exactly how it feels - it’s pure greed, done by the powerful and unaccountably rich CEOs to woo powerful and unaccountably rich Wall Street investors. All of these tech companies at this point treat their workers as numbers on a balance sheet, just elements of an optimization game where only those oligarchs have a seat.

I’ve never seen a combined post or comment score on any browser or app profile page. I’m reading these comments like, “Am I am idiot?”

Google’s getting worse, but I don’t think this list has anything on it I use on my own Google Home devices and doesn’t seem like a huge deal.

Here is the list:

So… I’m not sure why they can’t leave existing functionality in, but I’m guessing it’s for tech debt reasons. Maybe pretty minor use cases that probably take too much upkeep to maintain interoperability with other changing codebases (guessing the Google Calendar, recipe search), underused features (personal travel itineraries via voice), who knows, maybe even for privacy reasons (asking for information about contacts, sleep summaries, asking for previous Family Bell announcements).

There was a whole collection of “hacker” programs seemingly exclusively made and used by 12.5-13.5-year-olds that did these things. AOHell was the most well-known.

That looks delicious. However, maybe it’s just me, but I can’t get any of our cast iron pans to actually become non-stick with the seasoning process. I’d need a jackhammer to get that pizza out.

I’m sure your issue is valid on your particular system, but I have two Brother L2300D printers in different locations and my experience has been exactly zzzzz’s above. I have changed the toner once for each in years, and it’s always reliable. It may be you having a rare issue.